Hungary tech firm immortalises Steve Jobs in bronze

BUDAPEST

BUDAPEST Dec 21 (Reuters) - A Hungarian software
company unveiled what it said was the world's first bronze
statue of Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs on Wednesday, calling
him one of the greatest personalities of the modern age.

Jobs died on Oct. 5 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56.

The bronze work by sculptor Erno Toth stands in the Budapest
campus of architectural software maker Graphisoft.

"He was one of the greatest (personalities) in our era,
that's what we wanted to express with this sculpture here,"
Graphisoft Chairman Gabor Bojar told Reuters.

Bojar said Jobs gave cash and computers to Graphisoft,
helping it to become a global leader in architecture software
from humble roots as a tiny firm in the 1980s in then-communist
Hungary.

"In some ways, Apple was a religion," Bojar said at the
unveiling ceremony, comparing the experts from Cupertino-based
Apple who helped educate Graphisoft's engineers to
evangelists.

Steve Jobs represented a technological revolution which can
be compared only to the discovery of writing, Bojar said.

"We have felt his spirit every day and now it is embodied,"
he said. "We hope that we can deserve with our entrepreneurial
culture in Hungary what this sculpture expresses as a message."